Salience of Trust in Discussions and Recommendations of the United States' COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The COVID-19 pandemic has further eroded trust in public health institutions across the United States. We examined the salience of trust in the federal government's discussions and recommendations of the US COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force (HETF).

Methods

We conducted a thematic analysis of publicly available HETF documents, including the executive order, 8 meeting minutes, and 2 final deliverables. Given that trust operates at multiple levels of the socioecological continuum, we used an interpretive analytic approach to our inquiry.

Results

We found that several barriers, facilitators, and influencers to trust were discussed during HETF meetings but few were mentioned consistently across all documents. Trust was most frequently mentioned by individuals in

SUBMITTER: Kloft S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11683789 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature